When UPS acquired i-parcel, it wasn’t a typical talent and code extraction. At MongoDB World 2016, UPS i-store’s Yursil Kidwai told me how they moved from acquisition to innovation driver inside UPS. That journey also involves a move to MongoDB, and what Kidwai and his team call operations 2.0.

In the meantime, the companies hope to save employees from some of the meaningless tasks they have to carry out just to work with their colleagues.

IBM’s Verge email platform and Connections collaboration suite are a good match for Cisco products like the Spark messaging app and WebEx conferencing service, so the two vendors have found ways to integrate them, company officials say. All this will happen in the cloud. They’ll demonstrate the first examples next month at the Cisco Live conference.

In the meantime, the companies hope to save employees from some of the meaningless tasks they have to carry out just to work with their colleagues.

IBM’s Verge email platform and Connections collaboration suite are a good match for Cisco products like the Spark messaging app and WebEx conferencing service, so the two vendors have found ways to integrate them, company officials say. All this will happen in the cloud. They’ll demonstrate the first examples next month at the Cisco Live conference.

Taking to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre stage this afternoon (30 June) at the second annual Inspirefest event, Shook spoke extensively about diversity and inclusion in the tech sector, and why it’s so important to Accenture.

Shook described a company that has gone to great lengths to ensure that it is fully diverse, fully inclusive and fully representative on a global stage. A company that truly believes that we each have an opportunity and an obligation to help achieve gender equality.